My name is Oliver Calder and I am part of the Snapd team at Canonical. In this post, I’m excited to share some more information about a project I’ve been working on over several years with a talented group of people across the AppArmor, Desktop, Design, and Snapd teams: Permissions Prompting. Permissions Prompting is a new layer of user-defined security which empowers users to control at runtime the level of access applications have to the host system. There was an excellent post from around t...
Its also for my experience the worst way to use apps.
The fact that I can’t “update” my software without closing it first.
Why can I do that with all other package formats? I get it won’t be the new version until I reopen the app but still. Its unnecessary friction.
Also with the prompting last I used it Firefox couldn’t download anything with it enabled.
Like you ship Ubuntu with like 4 major snaps including the security center and it hasn’t or hadn’t worked with your shipped snaps for at least a year?